The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-03-04

just as / | believe it to be-feeliEg sure
my penetration is not at fault.
when Guido Ventura caneto Paris
he had with him q young woman
known as Miss Arabella. She was a
splendid creature osabout 20, with the
face of a goddess and the body of a
statue. Anyone could observe and
admire that figure of hers at the even
ing performances in the Alcazar,
where she appeared in a close-ftting
pages costume-pearl-gray tights
showing the fine contour of
limbs both vigorous and
graceful, and extremities of charming
delicacy-and adoublet of black velvet
combining the opulence OF a torso
strong, supple and full OF splendid
curves. When you saw her with her
head proudly thrown back the face
would have made you think of Diana
the Huntress.
'To tell the truth she had no end of
admirers, and in less than a week it
had become the fashion to go and see
this wonderful Arabella, who assisted
the celebrated marksman, Guido Ven
tura, in his ambitions. She looked
simply exquisite in her picturesque
costume, which brought out her robust
and elegant beauty to the best posi-
BILE advantage, when she would stand
with arms folded, right in the glare of
the footlights, with a perfectly impas-
sive face In front of Guido Ventura
sometimes holding q card in her hand
for him to cut with a pistol ball; some
times holding a pipe in her mouth, of
which he would break the stem just
two inches beyond her lips;-some-
times placing q nutshell on her head
for him to shatter with unfailing aim.
zone moments trembling of the
marksman's hand, and it would have
been all up with the splendid girl.
But the hand OF Guido Ventura new
trembled.
what relation did the wonderful
wife? 1t was probable, but not GER
tain. The question was not consider
ed OF much Importance, because the
couple had come fromacountry where
a marriage may be celebrated in one
state and Dissolved in another. What
was certain was that Guido Ventura
worshiped that woman as one wor-
ships an idol. To be certain of it, it
was only necessary once to see the
way his eyes would fash if some too
gallant gentlemen in the foyer made
himself a little too familiar with the
beauty. Jealous? Certainly he was
jealous, and you know the Qthellos Of
the new world are not apt 70 be pa
tient about certain matters.
"The man must have suffered afro.
ciously; for his companion was as CO.
quettish as she was pretty, and she
seemed to find fun in exasperating his
jealousy. Sometimes, IF the notion
took her, she would firt with q man
that she had never seen before, show
ing the tact and self-possessicn pecu.
liar to Amerisan girls in tantalizing as
well as fascinating. Very little she
seemed to care about what she made
the unfortunate man suffer through
prauks OF this sort. One day the
manager of the Alcazar himself stop
ped her behind the scenes as she lett a
group of young swede, with whom she
had been laughing and jesting:
"See here, my little woman he
whispered kindly, you'll had bettertake
care what you are doing. That man
holds your life every evening at the
end of his arm
"Arabella only laughted.
"'He kill me?' she answered, tossing
her head. Stuff he thinks too much
of me to give me a scratch
"And every evening she posed calm
ly before the muzzle of a pistol, her
velvet gaze quelling the anger of her
lover, as the eye of a lion tanner mas
tiers a beast.
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